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Star Family Report

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The Star Family Report provides parents, guardians, and educators with performance data for individual students in relation to state tests.

How do I get to this page?

  1. Log in to Renaissance.
  2. On the Home page:
    • Renaissance Next: Select Reports under “My Data” in the left-hand sidebar; then select Reports in the sidebar under “Star / Assessment.”
    • Legacy Mode: Select Reports; then select Star / Assessment in the drop-down list.

      The Star/Assessment links.
  3. On the Star / Assessment tab on the Reports page, under “Parent and Other Reports,” select Star Family Report.

Who can do this with default user permissions?

District Level Administrators, District Dashboard Owners, District Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff, Teachers

florida b.e.s.t. standards and the star family report

For our customers in Florida, on the Star Family Report, domains are referred to as strands, and standards are referred to as benchmarks.

  1. Use the Subject drop-down list to choose the subject to include in the report.

    The Subject drop-down list.

    The report shows data from the most recent assessment within the selected date range for the subject chosen:

    • Reading: The most recent Star Reading Enterprise or Star Reading Progress Monitoring assessment will be used. Star Early Literacy, Star Early Literacy Spanish, Star Reading Spanish, and Third Grade Reading Proficiency are not used for this report.
    • Math: The most recent Star Math Enterprise or Star Math Progress Monitoring assessment will be used. Star Math Algebra, Star Math Geometry, and Star Math Spanish are not used for this report.
  2. Use the School drop-down list to select a school.
    One school being selected from the School drop-down list.
    • If you are assigned to only one school, you will not see the School drop-down list.
    • School administrators and school staff can only select their own schools.
    • Teachers can only select schools that they are assigned to.
  3. Use the Students drop-down list to select either a single class at the chosen school or All Classes at the chosen school.
    All Classes being selected from the Students drop-down list.
    • School administrators and school staff can only select classes in their own school.
    • Teachers can only select their own classes.

    To select specific classes, groups, or students at the chosen school, use the links below the Students drop-down list. Selecting one of these links will open a corresponding pop-up window; in that window, enter search criteria in the field at the top of the window to find specific classes, groups, or students with names that start with the criteria you enter (in the "Select Students" pop-up window, district- and school-level users can select a grade to narrow down the list of students). Once you've searched, check the box at the top of the list to select all the available choices, or make individual selections below it.
    Examples of the pop-up windows that appear when the Classes, Groups, or Students links are selected. In each case, a search field at the top lets you search for specific classes, groups, or students; a check box above the listed classes, groups, or students lets you select or deselect all of them at once; and the Clear All link, Cancel button, and Save Selection buttons are at the bottom. In the Select Students window, there is a drop-down list to the left of the search field where district- and school-level users can specify a single grade to search within.

    • School administrators and school staff can only select classes, groups, or students in their own school.
    • Teachers can only select their own classes, their own groups, or students enrolled in one of their own classes.
      Select the arrow in the heading of a column to re-sort by the data in that column. The arrow indicates which column is being used for sorting and the order of the sort: up arrow = A–Z, down arrow = Z–A).

    Once you have made your choices, select Save Selection at the bottom of the pop-up window.

  4. If you want to use demographic data to further refine the data in the report, select Change Demographics... (or Choose Demographics...).

    The Change Demographics button.

    By default, the "All" option is chosen for Ethnicity, Gender, Language, and Grade Level. To reduce the scope, choose the "Select" option at the top of the appropriate column and then check your selections in that column.
    All ethnicities, all genders, two languages (English and Hmong), and three grade levels (grades 2, 3, and 4) have been selected.
    In the example above, the user has selected two Languages and three Grade Levels, while leaving Ethnicity and Gender at the default "All" options. Note: The Filter Reports by Ethnicity user permission may be set to prevent the use of ethnicities as a filter.

    By default, the "All" option is chosen for Characteristics. To reduce the scope, choose Select Characteristics... and then check each characteristic you want students in the report to have. You must also choose any or all (after "Include students with") to specify whether students with any of the selected characteristics will be included in the report or only those with all of the selected characteristics.

    Two characteristics have been selected. The Apply and Cancel buttons are at the bottom.
    In the example above, the user selected two Characteristics (ADA and ESL). Because any is selected, the report will include students who are ADA, ESL, or both. If all had been selected, only students who are both ADA and ESL would be included. Note: The Filter Reports by Characteristics user permission may be set to prevent the use of characteristics as a filter.

    Once you are finished choosing demographic options, select Apply at the bottom of the window to save your choices (or Cancel to close the window without saving your choices).

  5. Use the Date Range drop-down list to choose the dates you want to generate the report for. Dates will be in the current school year. You can select an existing marking period, screening window, or the school year (which will include the entire school year up to the current date).
    The user has chosen to select custom dates. A pop-up calendar is open, allowing the user to choose the dates. The dates can also be entered in the fields above the calendar. The Apply and Cancel buttons are in the upper-right corner of the pop-up window.

    If schools use their own unique screening date ranges within a district screening window, those ranges will all have the same name. To help you tell them apart, the dates they cover will be added to the end of the name.

    Three Fall screening windows, with three different date ranges to differentiate them (9/1 to 9/10, 9/10 to 9/20, and 9/20 to 9/30).

  6. Use the Language drop-down list to choose which language you want the report to be in: English or Spanish.
    The Language drop-down list.
  7. If necessary, use the Scale drop-down list to choose which scale you want to use for the scores on the report. (If you select a scale that doesn't apply to the selected assessment type, the default scale for that assessment type will be used.)
    The Scale drop-down list.

    notes on the scales

    • The Lexile® scale will not be a selectable option if you selected Math as the subject.
  8. Use the Benchmark Type drop-down list to choose which benchmark you want to measure students' scores against.
    The Benchmark Type drop-down list, and the checkboxes described below. The Update Report button is below them.
  9. To the right of the Benchmark Type drop-down list:
  10. Once you are done choosing report options, select Update Report.
  11. The report will generate and then open at the bottom of the page.

    For each student, you will see the score from their last completed assessment (for the subject you selected earlier). The score is shown on the selected scale and compared to the selected benchmark.

    The top of an example report.

    In the example above, the subject is Reading: Bella got a Scaled Score of 613 on her most recent Star Reading assessment. The colored bar shows the four benchmark categories for the state of California—Bella's score puts her in  Level 2 .

    The paragraph above the bar summarizes the meaning of the score, including the student's Percentile Rank (PR); if the Show Grade Equivalent option was selected earlier, the GE will be included here as well. In the example above,

    "It is higher than 37% of students in third grade . . . " = a PR of 37

    and

    ". . . and is typical of a 3rd grade student after the second month of the year." = a GE of 3.2

  12. If the option to show domain scores was selected earlier, they will appear at the bottom, along with the student's estimated level of mastery of each on the date the test was taken.

    The bottom of an example report, showing the student's domain scores and reading recommendation.

    • If the subject is Reading, the student's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) or Lexile® range will be shown as a Reading Recommendation in the lower-left corner; visit Accelerated Reader Bookfinder to use the zone/range to find appropriate books for the student.
    • If the subject is Math, some students (in grades 3–8) will have their Algebra Readiness shown in the lower-left corner.
    • To learn more about the scores and how you can use them to help the student succeed, scan the QR code in the lower-right corner or go to https://www.renaissance.com/star-scores.
  13. You can change any of the options you have selected and then regenerate the report by selecting Update Report.
  14. Select the Print or Save button above the first student's report to create a PDF of the reports. You can also select the Download Data button above the first student's report to download a CSV (comma-separated values) version of the reports that you can open in a spreadsheet program.
    The Print or Save and Download Data buttons.
  15. To return to the Reports page, select the navigator icon at the top of the page: .
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